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are so successfully emplojed in tlie prosecution of the daily business of 

 life. 



In addition to all this, we were generally ignorant of many of those 

 improvements and facilities in business, which in olJer counties, or older 

 States,even the children are familiar with. We want, then, knowledge ; and 

 •we want an honorable rivalship. We need not only to see what is to be 

 seen, as owned or manufactured within our own county, but we need to 

 become familiar with the stock, and the productions of the soil, and the 

 achievements of art and science in other counties, and in other States. 



Now the Annual Fair of an agricultural society, is calculated to bring 

 together the choicest, the best, the finest, the most beautiful, the great- 

 est variety, and the most useful, from all sections of the land. Not 

 only so; its tendency is also to draw together the inhabitants from all 

 parts, so that they may see and know for a verity, of those things, of 

 which perchance they may have read or heard, but which were regard- 

 ed as more fabulous than true. 



By seeing they become convinced ; they are made almost ashamed 

 of their past ignorance ; they are confounded at the reality ; they are 

 stimulated to go and do likewise. This is a moral certainty, they will 

 seek to imitate; for by a law of man's nature, he is a creature of imi- 

 tation. We insensibly catch the tones, the manners, the habits of others.' 

 What othei*s do, we are quite likely to do. As is the "parent, so is the 

 child ; as is one citizen, so, soon becomes another. 



As is one town or county, so shortly is another; seeing the choicest 

 and best of the stock reared in or without the county, many will be led 

 to secure to themselves, if possible, that which is equally good. Wit- 

 nessing the construction and the operation of an almost nameless vari- 

 ety of machinery, some will be excited to go and construct the like, or 

 that which is better; others led to procure for themselves or their fam- 

 ilies, a variety of simple machinery, peculiarly calculated to facililate 

 as well as render more easy, very much of the exhausting labor of life. 



Seeing the choicest of the fruits; the apples, the pears, the quinces, 

 the peaches, the plums, the apricots, the nectarines; the productions also 

 of the garden and the field ; many will bo led to say — " We also must 

 have the like of these; for they are so large, so productive, so excellent 

 in quality; such butter too, and such cheese, alraobt like gold itself; 

 such bread, and cake, and pickles and preserves ; and then as to those 



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